14 DAY TRIAL // Barnes & Noble’s NOOK tablets are among the cheapest tablet offerings on the market today, with the company aggressively slashing off prices for its devices, in an attempt to draw in more customers.
Even with the so-called special offers attached to its products, consumers seem to continue to shun the NOOKs in favor of Amazon’s Kindle tribe.
The discounting strategy made a lot of people wonder whether or not the book giant was going to go ahead and continue to make tablets at all in the future. Barnes & Noble itself doesn't seem to know the answer to this question.
This summer the company suggested the tablet line was going to be discontinued, only to come back to that statement a while later and declare the NOOK line will continue to live on after all. Keep in mind that they will probably bring in third-party hardware partners to help with the endeavor this time.
Now it appears, we’re finally getting some information about the elusive next-gen B&N tablet, as an announced NOOK device has been spotted on the GFXBench website.
The device is dubbed “BNTV800” and from the filling we can see it will come packing Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and a screen with a resolution of 1620 x 1008 pixels (GFXBench doesn't usually count the pixels retained for on-screen buttons, so the final resolution could turn out to be a little different.)
An interesting surprise is reserved for the processor department, where we might end up seeing a NVIDIA Tegra 4. It seems like Barnes & Noble is trying to keep up with Amazon here. With its latest line of Amazon Kindle Fire HDX tablets, the tech giant has slipped under the hood a fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor.
At this moment, we have no idea when such a device might see the light or day or how much it might end up costing. We’ll keep you posted.